Family is near Denali, while August works and rides his bike

They are going ....

Here is where.... 

Wireless Blogging

Here I am blogging from the foothills of the California Coast Range. Now I need to figure out how to upload pictures from the device........A

Collective Unconscious

Have been reading an edited version of Jung's work (edited by Joseph Campbell) and have spent the last couple of weeks wrapping my brain around the concept of collective unconscious. For me it is further confirmation as the keystone of what I have been looking for and seems to make sense. I come from a layman's perspective so don't bring a doctorate in to pollute things. It's the idea. The notion melds perfectly with the historical biological record - We all do come from the same place (Africa) and it makes intuitive sense that we would share the same mystery patterns. August will think some more but it is pretty good so far....... A

Cheap Road Bike - But it flies with a 220 lb man on it

Gone are the days we would stop to decide where we should go ...... we just ride -- Crazy Fingers; Grateful Dead

My Prayer ~ Completely Stolen from The Sons

I decided to tell you one thing or two..., but what did you do to make it so hard to talk to you? Its wasn't long ago you had it in mind; You were going to find what was slowing you down. You found it. Did you suddenly realize another thing? Did you suddenly start all your wondering, forget to sing about a thing bigger than you? Well you're never alone but some stranger things are true - Wherever you go I'm right beside you. I'm the good things that you do. HEADWAY

Tao ~ Christ

With the West, man is immeasurably small and the grace of God is everything; but in the East, man is God and he redeems himself.

The Funeral

Don's funeral was on Wednesday. I have not gone to these in the past (my family just has memorials or "remembrances"; no coffins or ritual) under the the belief that the reasonable thing to do was to remember the person as best I could; meditate or project in my own way my feelings for the person usually when I was in some place of physical beauty (elevation or ocean). Don also had something on Tuesday called a "visitation". There was a room in a mortuary where his coffin lay (it was closed). Many large flower displays and a large picture of him. It was good for me because, while I was there it was not crowded and I sat in the front pew and more or less fell apart. I think you have to do this as a part of it. Anyway I was able to then attend the funeral the next day and keep it together. The large church where he had his service was packed and the eulogies were flat profound and consistent. This was a man who had many REAL friends, I being one, and now the question for me is how to fill the gap that he had come to fill on my life. I know how to do it - I am going to try to take the pieces of him that he gave to me and try to give them to others. The first step is to do what he would have done - stay in regular contact with his wife and mother, just to let them know I am there. I think its exactly where he would have started........ A

One of the last vices.... 

I wish I could talk to Don... 

Strata 

Let's get wet 

Here's a list that's making the rounds of the Internet: GEORGE W. BUSH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT: I attacked and took over two countries. I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury. I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!). I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market. I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did). After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history. I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history. I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, since the advent of TV. I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history. I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. I cut health care benefits for war veterans. I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her). I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world. I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community. I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security"(only one letter away from BS). I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!). I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission. I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board. I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history. I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections. I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied,saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government. I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts. I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. In a little over two years. I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the Civil War. I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down RECORDS AND REFERENCES: I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available). I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. PERSONAL REFERENCES: For personal references, please speak to my dad or Uncle James Baker (They can be reached in their offices at the Carlyle Group where they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan for the next one) (Note: this information should be useful to voters in the 2004 election. Circulate to as many citizens you think would be helped to be reminded about his record.